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OUTSOURCED waste disposal workers in Sandwell in the West Midlands are to strike for nine days over pay.

Sandwell’s refuse collection service is contracted out to multinational privateer Serco.

The workers are members of general union GMB, who voted to strike after rejecting a pay deal amounting to a real-terms pay cut.

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